The blank lines have other non-printing characters - not tabs.
try
to see what other stuff is in there.
Thank you, jim: the 'od' is new for me and usefull command.
I have checked the file, but nothing extra is not found in the file
It seems our system grep and sed just old, as said Franklin52:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Old versions of sed don't recognize "\t" as a tab, type between the brackets a <space> followed by <Ctrl-v> <TAB> to delete the lines with spaces or/and tabs:
Regards
Thank you, Franclin52.
It works in the way you show.
So, I make a note for myself that our system do not know those macros and I need to use Ctrl/v for that.
I want to grep "xxx(tab)iii" but dunno the way to do it.
I've tried : grep "xxx\tiii" * , but it dont works.
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I want to exclude (-v) blank records from a file before analysing it.
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Hi,
I'm using the following to insert lines into file:
sed ${rowNr}i'\
first row\
second row\
third row\
' file.txt
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I'm using OpenBSD 4.3 & ksh (pdksh) default shell.
I'm trying to use sed to insert a tab into a text file with no luck.
$ sed 's/SusanAppleton/Susan\o011Appleton/' myFile.txt
Susano011Appleton
$ sed 's/SusanAppleton/Susan\tAppleton/' myFile.txt
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Hello All,
I have this file with the below contents
1|2|3|4|
this|that|which|what|
when I use, sed 's/|/\t/g' infile
I get,
1t2t3t4t
thistthattwhichtwhatt
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zgrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)